On February 22, Microsoft will attempt to make a dent in a market dominated by Sony and Nintendo for the past few years when it releases the Xbox in Japan. Needless to say, Microsoft knows how ...
Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it is cutting the price in Japan for its high-end Xbox 360 game console by 25 percent in a bid to lift demand ahead of the critical year-end shopping season. The Xbox ...
CHIBA, Japan -- Microsoft will be releasing games developed by top Japanese designers for its Xbox 360 console, a senior executive said Thursday, the latest effort by the U.S. software maker to make ...
TOKYO - Amid ongoing labor reforms in a notoriously overworked Japanese market, Microsoft performed an experiment to see how reducing the work week to four days would affect productivity. They found ...
Microsoft Japan held a trial last August to see what the effects of a shorter workweek would be. This trial, called the "Work Life Choice Challenge Summer 2019," gave employees every Friday off over ...
A growing number of smaller companies are adopting a four-day workweek. Now the results of a recent trial at Microsoft suggest it could work even for the biggest businesses. The company introduced a ...
Microsoft is among the many U.S. companies whose operations were impacted by the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Here’s a status report from the company, issued yesterday afternoon and still ...
Microsoft on Monday said it will appeal a ruling by the Japanese Fair Trade Commission that the software maker's contracts with computer makers violate that country's antitrust law. Microsoft said it ...
In a press conference today, Microsoft Japan President and CEO Yasuyuki Higuchi confirmed that Japan would not be getting the Xbox One this year. When pressed for details, Higuchi explained that Japan ...
In August, Microsoft Japan closed its offices on Fridays, treating 2,300 employees to a month’s worth of three-day weekends. With workers only at their desks four days instead of five, you might think ...
TOYKO--Microsoft's Xbox 360 press conference in Tokyo today started out with a greeting speech from Takashi Sensui, the new general manager of Microsoft Japan's Xbox division. While it wasn't until ...
Microsoft on Monday said it will appeal a ruling by the Japanese Fair Trade Commission that the software maker's contracts with computer makers violate that country's antitrust law. Microsoft said it ...